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’It leaves me choked with pride when I witness what many of them have achieved in their own independent careers.’
Scottish chemist and Nobel Laureate @sirfrasersays talks about why mentorship is the key to great science. Read more: unsw.to/nobel-laureate…
Scottish chemist and Nobel Laureate @sirfrasersays talks about why mentorship is the key to great science. Read more: unsw.to/nobel-laureate…
“I have been involved in a lot of project-driven research – but my whole career has shown that that model is not good value for money for the funding agencies or the governments that promote it.”
- @sirfrasersays, Nobel Laureate and recent @UNSW SHARP Hire.
- @sirfrasersays, Nobel Laureate and recent @UNSW SHARP Hire.
“The best value for money comes from giving it to people that are likely to have great ideas.”
- @sirfrasersays.
- @sirfrasersays.
.@sirfrasersays, if researchers are seeking to make transformative breakthroughs in their work, it is crucial to encourage creative thinking by supporting them as people, rather than projects.
...and that research supervisors should approach supporting #ECRs as a long-term commitment. For students at the start of their #research career, it is not unlike an apprenticeship, which @sirfrasersays can take at minimum 10 years. #ecrchat 
“It was a bolt from the blue,” @sirfrasersays about the discovery that earned a @NobelPrize.
“But for every success in my life, I have experienced my full share of failures. Some, as a direct consequence of making mistakes – that I have progressively learned how to manage.”
“But for every success in my life, I have experienced my full share of failures. Some, as a direct consequence of making mistakes – that I have progressively learned how to manage.”
In this powerful story, @sirfrasersays credits his mentors whose patience and insight drew out his greatest strengths as a researcher. unsw.to/nobel-laureate…
Expert tweeter, Scottish chemist and 2016 @NobelPrize Laureate Sir Fraser Stoddart (@sirfrasersays) joined us in 2017 as part of the Strategic Hires and Retention Pathways (SHARP) scheme, an initiative to bring world-class researchers to the University.
Have you had a great mentor? Tell us who they were and their best advice, with #MyMentorTaughtMe.
